First, we planted 80 muscari bulbs in the front boulevard. I made the holes and Maya dropped in the grape hyacinth bulbs.

Next, we filled the window box with some blue and apricot winter pansies.

These will bloom now, pause for a while, then start blooming again in earnest next spring and continue all the way through to June. Great value.

Earlier, I moved three containers full of purple aeoniums into the solarium for winter along with some tender sedums, a pink abutilon and a fuchsia.

I still have a few pots of Astelia ‘Silver Spear’ and some scented geraniums plus a large phormium to move into winter quarters.

Beautiful maple leaves in my garden.

This has been a fantastic fall for foliage colour. The warm days and cool nights have been perfect for slowly changing the colour of leaves.

And the absence of rain and wind has kept leaves on the trees, producing some beautiful sights.

There is still time to plant some bulbs for spring. But I think the rain is coming and then we will be locked up indoors. Make hay while the sun shines, I say, and get those bulbs in the ground.

I was in GardenWorks at Mandevilles today and noticed they have already put up all their Christmas displays and it is still pre-Halloween. I can’t think about Christmas until we are at least into November.

Maya wants me to tell you one other thing: Her favourite song at the moment is What Does the Fox Say by Ylvis. Check it out; it’s a fab song for fall with a great line about the beautiful red colour of the fox’s fur.

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